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    Pawan Kumar

    Video game footage of helicopters being struck shared with claims IAF downing Pakistan helicopters

    17th May 2025
    A video showing two choppers being struck down has been shared on social media with claims that the Indian Air Force downed two fighter helicopters in Bhuj, killing four Pakistani...
    Video game footage of helicopters being struck shared with claims IAF downing Pakistan helicopters
    Ankita Mahalanobish

    Pak deputy PM leads nation in praising air force based on fake Daily Telegraph clipping

    16th May 202516th May 2025
    A purported clipping from The Daily Telegraph newspaper dated Saturday, May 10, is viral on social media. It shows part of a story with the headline, “Pakistan Air Force: The...
    Pak deputy PM leads nation in praising air force based on fake Daily Telegraph clipping

    There is no Virat Kohli statue at Times Square; viral video is from ad made with computer graphics

    Prantik Ali4th July 20244th July 2024

    A 19-second clip has gone viral on social media with the claim that a life-size statue of Indian cricketer Virat Kohli has been unveiled at the iconic Times Square in…

    Kerala institute’s NEET success ad falsely viral as photos of Muslim beneficiaries of paper leak

    Oishani Bhattacharya4th July 20245th July 2024

    An image of a newspaper advertisement is viral on social media, claiming to show the beneficiaries of the NEET-UG paper leak. The image is being shared with the claim that…

    Viral video of aghast Bangladesh supporters is not from India-South Africa T20 WC Final

    Prantik Ali3rd July 20248th July 2024

    India defeated South Africa in the T20 Cricket World Cup Final by 7 runs at the Kensington Oval in Barbados, West Indies, on June 29. With South Africa requiring 16…

    Arrested persons in NEET scam all Muslims? No, the viral claims are misleading

    Oishani Bhattacharya2nd July 2024

    Allegations of corruption in the 2024 National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test-Undergraduate (NEET-UG) have been making headlines since May. The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) took over the investigations into the alleged irregularities…

    Rahul Gandhi did not call the entire Hindu community violent; BJP leaders are sharing a clipped video

    Abhishek Kumar2nd July 2024

    BJP MPs, Union ministers, Right-wing influencers and BJP supporters are sharing a video of Rahul Gandhi in which the Congress chief says, “Those who call themselves Hindus, they engage in…

    Claims that Anjali Birla became an IAS officer without taking the UPSC exam are false on several counts

    Prantik Ali2nd July 20242nd July 2024

    A claim is viral across social media alleging that Anjali Birla, the daughter of Lok Sabha Speaker Om Birla, has become an IAS officer without clearing the Union Public Service…

    Woman in viral photo with George Soros is not Manmohan Singh’s daughter

    Prantik Ali1st July 2024

    A picture of Hungarian-American philanthropist and businessman George Soros with a woman has gone viral on social media with the claim that the woman is the daughter of former Prime…

    Child-kidnapping rumours trigger panic in Bengal towns after missing 11-year-old boy found dead

    Indradeep Bhattacharyya29th June 202430th June 2024

    The alleged murder of an 11-year-old boy over a property dispute in the town of Barasat, about 25 km north of Kolkata, has fuelled completely unsubstantiated rumours of child kidnapping…

    Photo of mother-son duo falsely viral as Hindu woman marrying her son

    Prantik Ali28th June 2024

    A video is viral on social media with the claim that a man named Vikas Pathak married his mother, Jyoti Pathak, after her husband died in an accident three years…

    Old video of Bengaluru vendor shared with the false claim that he added urine to popcorn

    Oishani Bhattacharya27th June 2024

    A video purportedly from Bengaluru is going viral on social media, claiming to show Bengaluru police apprehending a popcorn vendor for allegedly using urine to make popcorn. Many social media…

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